Rails - Oct 2012 - Designating CSS class throwing error?

For some reason getting this error.  Following a tutorial step by step. 
 Why would the added "class: "btn ect" be the problem?

compile error
/Users/bradwrage/webapps/treebook/app/views/statuses/index.html.erb:5: syntax
error, unexpected '':''
...atus", new_status_path, class: "btn btn-success"
);@output_b...
                              ^
/Users/bradwrage/webapps/treebook/app/views/statuses/index.html.erb:7: syntax
error, unexpected kDO_BLOCK, expecting kEND
''); @statuses.each do | status| 
                     ^
/Users/bradwrage/webapps/treebook/app/views/statuses/index.html.erb:21: syntax
error, unexpected kENSURE, expecting $end


<h1> All of the Statuses</h1>
3: </div>
4: 
5: <%= link_to "Post a New Status", new_status_path, class:
"btn btn-success" %>
6: 
7: <% @statuses.each do | status| %> 

8: <div class="status"> 

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On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 9:05 PM, wragen22
<bradwrage-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> For some reason getting this error.  Following a tutorial step by step.
>  Why would the added "class: "btn ect" be the problem?
>
> compile error
> /Users/bradwrage/webapps/treebook/app/views/statuses/index.html.erb:5:
syntax error, unexpected '':''
> ...atus", new_status_path, class: "btn btn-success"
);@output_b...
>                               ^
> /Users/bradwrage/webapps/treebook/app/views/statuses/index.html.erb:7:
syntax error, unexpected kDO_BLOCK, expecting kEND
> ''); @statuses.each do | status|
>                      ^
> /Users/bradwrage/webapps/treebook/app/views/statuses/index.html.erb:21:
syntax error, unexpected kENSURE, expecting $end
>
>
> <h1> All of the Statuses</h1>
> 3: </div>
> 4:
> 5: <%= link_to "Post a New Status", new_status_path, class:
"btn btn-success" %>
> 6:
> 7: <% @statuses.each do | status| %>
>
> 8: <div class="status">
>
>
try:

:class => "btn btn-success"

maybe its your ruby version

Javier Q

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